This software has completely changed my life. I use it as a TODO list, I use to to manage developers, I use it to manage myself, and I'm now using it to manage the process of renovating my house (will eventually require my contractor to use it). I will never go back to the days of using a TODO list that's bound to a particular phone, handheld, laptop, or desktop.
Recall that the CC-SA license (which is great) is a completely different beast than the *-NC-* variants. I don't know who decided that putting a non-commercial-only restriction on materials could still be thought of as copyleft, but it's damn near as bad as commercial-only in my book. (heh, book).
The two licenses are CERTAINLY incompatible. Prohibiting commercial usage of the materials is in express opposition to the great work of the GFDL folks, who far from prohibiting commercial redistribution, actually encourage such behavior with this phrase from the license: "either commercially or noncommercially."
That particular Creative Commons license totally bites. If I contribute to one of the books, I can't sell a copy of it when I'm done. Huh?
My wife and I played through both Ratchet and Clank I and II, and then moved on to other, cooler games afterward. I've been patient, and also let her hold the controller a lot, and now she games more than I do. Even though she won't retain the same level of interest as I do, I'm sure she will have a continued appreciation for my desire to play sometimes.
Brands, in fact, have a very specific value, and are really the only thing in an increasingly digital economy that have a relatively strong chance of retaining a high value.
I think you're probably just trolling here, so I'll keep my reply short. In a marketplace where (just as an example) even you could fire up a GNU/Linux distribution and sell it in competition with RedHat, what does RedHat have other than their brand?
Rackspace's fanatic support is truly fanatic. Story from today: one of our bsd guys was doing some admin on a Linux box. He fucked up/etc/passwd somehow, using the wrong tool I think. He called rackspace, who picked up on the first ring. He explained the deal to them, and they told him he'd have to reset the root pwd (duh). But he wasn't on the contact list.
They conferenced me in on my cell phone (they've got it in the database) and asked me for authorization. Fifteen minutes later, we were up with a new root password, and no further hassle.
We've only got two servers there right now, and we pay $400/month, I think, which includes the leasing of the (cheapo) hardware. We would have paid about $2500.00 for this sort of box, maybe a little less.
For our client work, we've been using Worldcom, but they suck. Our setup with five servers (one load balancer/proxy, two for "business logic", one DB, and a search box seems to do fine for us.
I used to have a couple personal sites hosted at Dreamhost. They also suck. $75.00 a month, and they must have 90% uptime. Rackspace gives us a REFUND if they are down more than 24 seconds in a given month. Cool stuff.
I recently read Wolfram's book, and was most frustrated by the way that it is tied so closely to Mathematica. Mathematica is a very impressive, very important analysis tool, and is REALLY FSCKING EXPENSIVE.
Oh, by the way it was the New Kind of Science book, not the Mathematica book that I read;)
At any rate, I found some cool analysis tools that people should check out as alternatives to Mathematica for analysis and visualization of everything from battlebots to cellular automata. Without further ado:
PDL is the most directly analagous to Mathematica or Matlab. R is, of course, like S/S+. PGPlot is for visualization. Grass is mostly for geostatistics/GIS. But it's cool enough to throw in the mix.
Anyhow, hope this helps someone out. Go forth and make a battlebot.
Think about this, though: in fact, an infinite number of monkeys would create "every work ever written, that ever will be written, and ever possible to be written" an infinite number of times. Well, at least a countably infinite number of times, as opposed to uncountably infinite.
Furthermore, given enough time, the monkeys would mail the best paper to your professor (probably an infinite number of times as well), and you would get an A.
So here's my proposal: forget Seti@home, forget DES, and RC5, and all those silly distributed products. Install my infinite monkeys client to write pieces for/., and then when we reach enough processing power that it is close enough to infinite to start behaving like those monkeys, we'll axe Rob Malda and have/. articles with no misspellings.
Interesting to me that such a posting would receive such a warm welcome in the Slashdot community... or perhaps my moderation level simply extinguished the flames.
Apparently your friend has learned very little by reading Slasdot? If her newfangled Linux toaster is actually such a great "device", keeping the idea a secret is the last thing she wants to do. She should register a domain name, potentially apply for a patent, certainly make a record of the idea and its implementation (to avoid the patents of others who may have similar notions), and start creating some hype.
Just my two cents... a linux toaster company is worth more than a linux toaster invention.
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This software has completely changed my life. I use it as a TODO list, I use to to manage developers, I use it to manage myself, and I'm now using it to manage the process of renovating my house (will eventually require my contractor to use it). I will never go back to the days of using a TODO list that's bound to a particular phone, handheld, laptop, or desktop.
Recall that the CC-SA license (which is great) is a completely different beast than the *-NC-* variants. I don't know who decided that putting a non-commercial-only restriction on materials could still be thought of as copyleft, but it's damn near as bad as commercial-only in my book. (heh, book).
The two licenses are CERTAINLY incompatible. Prohibiting commercial usage of the materials is in express opposition to the great work of the GFDL folks, who far from prohibiting commercial redistribution, actually encourage such behavior with this phrase from the license: "either commercially or noncommercially."
That particular Creative Commons license totally bites. If I contribute to one of the books, I can't sell a copy of it when I'm done. Huh?
My wife and I played through both Ratchet and Clank I and II, and then moved on to other, cooler games afterward. I've been patient, and also let her hold the controller a lot, and now she games more than I do. Even though she won't retain the same level of interest as I do, I'm sure she will have a continued appreciation for my desire to play sometimes.
Brands, in fact, have a very specific value, and are really the only thing in an increasingly digital economy that have a relatively strong chance of retaining a high value.
I think you're probably just trolling here, so I'll keep my reply short. In a marketplace where (just as an example) even you could fire up a GNU/Linux distribution and sell it in competition with RedHat, what does RedHat have other than their brand?
hmmmm?
That's "my es cue el", my friend, not "my sequel". This first line has six syllables according to Monty...
Rackspace's fanatic support is truly fanatic. Story from today: one of our bsd guys was doing some admin on a Linux box. He fucked up /etc/passwd somehow, using the wrong tool I think. He called rackspace, who picked up on the first ring. He explained the deal to them, and they told him he'd have to reset the root pwd (duh). But he wasn't on the contact list.
They conferenced me in on my cell phone (they've got it in the database) and asked me for authorization. Fifteen minutes later, we were up with a new root password, and no further hassle.
We've only got two servers there right now, and we pay $400/month, I think, which includes the leasing of the (cheapo) hardware. We would have paid about $2500.00 for this sort of box, maybe a little less.
For our client work, we've been using Worldcom, but they suck. Our setup with five servers (one load balancer/proxy, two for "business logic", one DB, and a search box seems to do fine for us.
I used to have a couple personal sites hosted at Dreamhost. They also suck. $75.00 a month, and they must have 90% uptime. Rackspace gives us a REFUND if they are down more than 24 seconds in a given month. Cool stuff.
Anyhow, I give Rackspace an A+ so far.
Oh, by the way it was the New Kind of Science book, not the Mathematica book that I read ;)
At any rate, I found some cool analysis tools that people should check out as alternatives to Mathematica for analysis and visualization of everything from battlebots to cellular automata. Without further ado:
- PDL
- R
- PGPlot
- GRASS
(just to name a few)PDL is the most directly analagous to Mathematica or Matlab. R is, of course, like S/S+. PGPlot is for visualization. Grass is mostly for geostatistics/GIS. But it's cool enough to throw in the mix.
Anyhow, hope this helps someone out. Go forth and make a battlebot.
The right way to defeat the People Who do it Wrong (TM) is to exercise our right to ignore them, along with everything they do.
print "been there. done that.\n";
"perldoc perltoc"
"perldoc perltoc"
"perldoc perltoc"
mmmm.... yummy.
Think about this, though: in fact, an infinite number of monkeys would create "every work ever written, that ever will be written, and ever possible to be written" an infinite number of times. Well, at least a countably infinite number of times, as opposed to uncountably infinite.
Furthermore, given enough time, the monkeys would mail the best paper to your professor (probably an infinite number of times as well), and you would get an A.
So here's my proposal: forget Seti@home, forget DES, and RC5, and all those silly distributed products. Install my infinite monkeys client to write pieces for /., and then when we reach enough processing power that it is close enough to infinite to start behaving like those monkeys, we'll axe Rob Malda and have /. articles with no misspellings.
Apparently your friend has learned very little by reading Slasdot? If her newfangled Linux toaster is actually such a great "device", keeping the idea a secret is the last thing she wants to do. She should register a domain name, potentially apply for a patent, certainly make a record of the idea and its implementation (to avoid the patents of others who may have similar notions), and start creating some hype.
Just my two cents... a linux toaster company is worth more than a linux toaster invention.